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Recent Projects

1. concerto GROSSO (2009)
   

2. collaboration with A Far Cry, Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra; world premiere: October 30 and 31, Boston, MA
   

3. A spiral of soprano sound (2009)
   

4. cycle of three songs for soprano and piano commissioned by Claude Vielleux for Kristal Calvert in honor of their 10th anniversary, 9 minutes
   

5. A seal upon your heart (2008)
   

6. for seven-part chorus (SSAATBB, div.), with texts from the Song of Solomon (7:11-13; 8:1, 4-7), 12 minutes
   

7. your eyes have their silence (2008)
   

8. for string trio, commissioned by the Rosetta Trio, 12 minutes
   

9. Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story (2005)
   

10. original music for the documentary on Suskind and the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam
    
    

Upcoming Projects

1. Stabat Mater
   

2. a commission from the Cantata Singers of Ottawa for their spring 2010 concerts
   

3. Flute, Violin, Cello, and Percussion
   

4. collaboration with the Cadillac Moon Ensemble of New York City for a future performance
   
   

Choral

1. A seal upon your heart (2008)
   

2. for seven-part chorus (SSAATBB, div.), with texts from the Song of Solomon (7:11-13; 8:1, 4-7), 12 minutes
   

3. Psalm 84 (2005)
   

4. anthem for choir and viola for the dedication of the new sanctuary at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts, 4 minutes
   

5. O pray for the peace of Jerusalem (2003)
   

6. anthem for choir and organ, 3 minutes
   

7. Trinity (2001)
   

8. anthem commissioned by Trinity Episcopal Church, Concord, Massachusetts, 3 minutes
   

9. An die Musik (2000)
   

10. for unaccompanied choir on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, 3 minutes
    

11. in Just– (1999)
    

12. for unaccompanied choir on the poem by e. e. cummings, 1 minute
    

13. Faith Comes from What Is Heard (1997)
    

14. anthem commissioned by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 5 minutes
    
    

Vocal

1. A spiral of soprano sound (2009)
   

2. cycle of three songs for soprano and piano commissioned by Claude Vielleux for Kristal Calvert in honor of their 10th anniversary, 9 minutes
   

3. Help me now (2006)
   

4. song for soprano and chamber orchestra commissioned by the Concord Academy Orchestra, 4 minutes
   

5. Till it is ready (2004)
   

6. song cycle for soprano, flute, cello and organ on texts from the Song of Solomon, 10 minutes
   

7. anyone lived in a pretty how town (2000)
   

8. for soprano and cello on the poem by e. e. cummings, 5 minutes
   

9. one winter afternoon (1999)
   

10. for tenor, flute, viola, and harp on the poem by e. e. cummings, 4 minutes
    
    

Orchestral

1. concerto GROSSO (2009)
   

2. collaboration with A Far Cry, Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra; world premiere: October 30 and 31, Boston, MA
   

3. Viola Concerto (1998)
   

4. for Sarah Darling and the Longy School of Music Chamber Orchestra, 18 minutes
   

5. Scherzo (1996)
   

6. for three youth string orchestras of varying ability: elementary, middle, and high school, 3 minutes
   

Chamber

1. concerto GROSSO (2009)
   

2. collaboration with A Far Cry, Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra; world premiere: October 30 and 31, Boston, MA
   

3. your eyes have their silence (2008)
   

4. for string trio, commissioned by the Rosetta Trio, 12 minutes
   

5. Three Miniatures (2001)
   

6. for viola and cello, 3 minutes
   

7. Viola Sonata (1997)
   

8. for solo viola, 12 minutes
   
   

Stage

1. Miss Julie (2002)
   

2. a one act opera on the play by August Strindberg, 26 minutes
   

3. stitch counting (1999)
   

4. one act opera on poems by e. e. cummings, 14 minutes
   
   

Film

1. Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story (2005)
   

2. original music for the documentary on Suskind and the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam
   
   

Liturgical

1. Wedding Music (2005)
   

2. for brass quintet, 8 minutes
   

3. Advent Service Music (2004)
   

4. for Sunday morning services at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, Lincoln, Massachusetts
   

5. Sung Morning Prayer Service in the Taizé Tradition (2003)
   

6. for choir, congregation, and organ at the Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut
   
   

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